Challenge students to explore the past and present. Our social studies curriculum delivers compelling, interactive experiences that cultivate the critical thinking and analytical skills children need to succeed in college, career, and civic life.
Immersive media, audio, and visuals provide relevant content to encourage “Aha!” moments in the classroom.
Interactive tools enable students to analyze primary sources like a historian and complete evidence-based writing tasks.
Teachers asked, we listened. With Custom Assessments, teachers can create assessments tailored to their students' needs.
Teachers have numerous differentiated instruction and assessment opportunities to ensure that every student has a clear path to success.
HMH Into Social Studies™
Grades K–6
Captivate students with vibrant magazines and hands-on activities that will strengthen reading and writing skills and help them develop into global thinkers.
HMH Social Studies
Grades 6–12
Immerse students in history with inquiry-based social studies programs that challenge them to dig into the past and uncover connections to their world.
HMH AP & Electives
Grades 9–12
Deepen students' understanding of critical concepts and their real-world applications with AP and electives offered through our partnership with Wiley.
It’s important to ensure that students are looking at primary sources from the past, then taking their historical-thinking skills and applying them to information on the web today.
Danielle LeFebvre
7th-Grade Teacher, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, NC
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Learn how to teach the Holocaust in schools and overcome the challenges of teaching this subject with these insights and guidelines from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
How do we reframe our pedagogy to incorporate multiple narratives within our classrooms? We can start with three building blocks: reading, content integration, and scaffolding of information.
Fourth-grade teacher Perry Hollins shares tips for teaching current events through an SEL lens.
Implement these culturally responsive teaching strategies and instruction practices in the classroom to help students feel included, validated, valued, and safe.
Allow your middle schoolers to explore the past with these social studies activities and lessons covering topics ranging from U.S. Supreme Court cases to ancient civilizations.
Give students a better understanding of our global society with these high school world history and American history lesson plan ideas and activities.
Season 2 of the Shaping the Future Podcast kicks off with special guest Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, author of Happier and co-founder of the Happiness Studies Academy. Join host Matthew Mugo Fields as he asks about anti-fragility and the elements of happiness.
Meet Shellye Archambeau, former CEO of MetricStream and author of the book Unapologetically Ambitious. In this episode we learn how to encourage our students to be future leaders.
Meet Perry Hollins, a fourth grade teacher and former DJ who has spent the past 11 years infusing an African-centered pedagogy into the curriculum. Perry utilizes his education to create a culturally responsive, project-based learning environment for independent, flexible thinkers.
Listen to a podcast on the objectives of civic education, the role of schools in teaching civics, and how to remain non-partisan while creating informed future voters. Featuring Sylvia Acevedo (CEO, Girl Scouts) and Dr. Emma Humphries (Chief Education Officer, iCivics).
Inspire students to become engaged citizens.
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